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2 July 2025
McLaren Construction’s digital information management team emerged victorious from the intensely competitive Digital Team of the Year category, sponsored by Digital Construction Week, at the Digital Construction Awards 2025.
Judges commended McLaren Construction’s digital information management team as a “great submission, with a clear and well-planned stepped process”.
The 22-strong digital information management team was established in-house to implement a five-year digital strategy set by the board in 2022.
What the judges said
“The team has demonstrated measurable benefits from overcoming a clearly expressed challenge. It is brilliant to see benefits for the business and people as well as clients – it really demonstrates how digital is creating new opportunities in construction, which in turn will attract new people to the sector. Impressive.”
Comprising information management, digital construction and specialist system implementation managers, the team is responsible for McLaren’s digital information management standard, ensures compliance with building safety legislation and demonstrates robust digital information management for all aspects of design, procurement, change control, quality control and handover.
The digital information management team has succeeded in delivering user-friendly systems and driving culture change, elevating the status of information management and data across McLaren.
Just three years later, take-up has reached 90% of projects and 84% of employees. More than 1,800 external users, including customers, designers and subcontractors, engage with McLaren’s digital systems and use its data.
Other finalists
AtkinsRéalis – Digital Centre of Excellence Team Formation
AtkinsRéalis – Transportation Information Management Network
BAM UK & Ireland – Realising the value of a digital team
Digital transformation within Prism Offsite Manufacturing
Laing O’Rourke’s digital team
Translink BIM team on Belfast Grand Central Station
WSP on Surface Transport Infrastructure Construction – Brent Cross TfL Structures
The judges were impressed by the team’s “tangible numbers to demonstrate progress”: benefits achieved so far include greater profitability and a growing proportion of repeat business delivered in the 2024 end-of-year results.
The judges also praised the “good holistic approach to embedding a digital strategy across the business”.
The Digital Construction Awards are organised by Digital Construction Week, the Chartered Institute of Building, Construction Management and DC+. To find out more about the Awards and enquire about sponsorship or entering next year’s event, visit digitalconstructionawards.co.uk.
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